Psychological ownership, organization-based self-esteem and positive organizational behaviors
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore the effect of organizational psychological ownership (OPO) and organization-based self-esteem (OBSE) on positive organizational behaviors (POBs).
Design/methodology/approach
Based on empirical survey, 2,566 employees from 45 production enterprises in China were surveyed by a self-designed questionnaire on OPO, OBSE and POB. Then, the methods of correlation analysis, multiple regressions, impact effect and path analysis were used to verify the research hypothesis.
Findings
The results showed that POB is positively related to OPO and OBSE, and that OPO and OBSE are positive predictors of POBs. The results also demonstrated that OBSE has partial mediating effects on OPO and POB. In particular, psychological ownership has a significant impact on each sub-factor of POB, while OBSE has a remarkable effect on the behavior of devotion and interpersonal harmony.
Research limitations/implications
This is a non-experimental field study and as such inferences about causality are limited, and there is a possibility that the results may be influenced by common method variance.
Practical implications
The findings of the present study reveal that to strengthen employees’ POBs, manager should enhance employees’ OPO and OBSE, and therefore the organizational performance and the individual efficacy will be improved.
Originality/value
This is the first research which studies the relationship among OPO, POB and OBSE under the background of China.
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Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank the Guest Editor, Professor Lin Song, and reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions on this research. This work was substantially supported by a grant from the National Social Science Found Project (11XSH019), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (SWU1309371), Doctoral Scientific Fund Project of the Southwest China University (SWU109002) and Key research project from key research base of Chongqing humanities and social sciences (10SKB22).
Citation
Pan, X.-F., Qin, Q. and Gao, F. (2014), "Psychological ownership, organization-based self-esteem and positive organizational behaviors", Chinese Management Studies, Vol. 8 No. 1, pp. 127-148. https://doi.org/10.1108/CMS-04-2014-0088
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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